From a 45-minute close to 8 minutes.
Cafe Deja Vu opened on SB Road, Pune in 2017 running four apps that didn't talk to each other. Today its three outlets run on one XENIOS instance, and the nightly close takes eight minutes.
Published · XENIOS
At a glance
- Business
- Cafe Deja Vu, a café brand in Pune, India
- First outlet
- 2017, SB Road, Pune
- Outlets today
- Three — SB Road, Bavdhan and Kothrud
- Before
- Four separate apps for POS, inventory, HR and payments
- After
- One local-first XENIOS SROS instance across all three outlets
- Nightly close
- 45 minutes → 8 minutes
- Relationship
- Cafe Deja Vu is XENIOS's own brand and its first customer
Disclosure: Cafe Deja Vu is run by XENIOS founder Nitin Solanke. It is our own café — the floor SROS was built on.
One outlet in 2017. Three today.
Cafe Deja Vu opened its first outlet on SB Road, Pune, in 2017. It now runs three outlets across the city — SB Road, Bavdhan and Kothrud.
It is also where XENIOS started. The founder built the first SROS prototype for this café, and Cafe Deja Vu has been in daily production on it ever since. When a feature is annoying, our staff complain first and loudest.
Four apps. None of them talked to each other.
In the founder's words, from running a single-outlet café on SB Road in 2017.
A POS, a separate inventory app, a third app for HR and a fourth for payments. None of them talked to each other.
Closing time was 45 minutes of reconciliation every night.
The cashier disagreed with the kitchen on what was actually served.
Inventory drifted because nobody updated it during a rush.
The internet died at 8 pm every Tuesday.
One system, every role, same database.
Instead of four apps, Cafe Deja Vu runs XENIOS SROS — POS for the cashier, KOT for the kitchen, inventory and payments on one database.
Local-first POS
The master database runs on the in-cafe laptop, so orders, kitchen tickets, payments and inventory keep flowing when the internet drops. The cloud is a backup that syncs once the connection returns.
Kitchen Order Tickets
Kitchen Order Tickets with station filters and 15-minute late alerts, on the same database as the POS.
Hindi voice in the kitchen
Built in because the kitchen staff don't read tickets in English at speed. Voice runs in en-IN and hi-IN, with bilingual KOT printing.
Inventory tied to the menu
A recipe Bill-of-Materials links every menu item to its ingredients. Stock auto-deducts on fulfilment and restocks on cancel.
UPI and GST at the counter
UPI deep links because customers kept asking for it. GST rate set per outlet, applied the moment an order is created.
Three outlets, one instance
Per-outlet menus, pricing, staff and reports, rolled up centrally into one dashboard.
Closing time is eight minutes.
These numbers come from the Cafe Deja Vu floor. We only publish what we can stand behind.
nightly close
Reconciliation at the founding cafe, before and after SROS. The cashier and the kitchen finally agree on the night's numbers.
in daily production
Every shift since the first outlet opened on SB Road.
one instance
Cafe Deja Vu across SB Road, Bavdhan and Kothrud runs on a single XENIOS deployment.
Run your café the same way.
The system behind Cafe Deja Vu's eight-minute close is open to other restaurants. Starter is ₹4,999 a year for a single outlet, with a 14-day trial.